Poetry Reminds Me of the Holes in My Memory
Cease, seize, seizure, caesura: These are words I want to use when trying to describe the blank spaces within a line, a night, a life
Cease, seize, seizure, caesura: These are words I want to use when trying to describe the blank spaces within a line, a night, a life
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Two poems by Evan Wang
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Two poems by Evan Wang
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